re: HA burns police truck after cops refuse to move it from in front of his business

that'll learn em

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So he didn't want a police vehicle ruining his drug deals

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Maybe he just doesn't trust the police, because he has had dealings with them before.

How much tax payer money was going towards owning and maintaining a vehicle plus paying a person to monitor it and move it's location every two hours? For what legal purpose?

Lot of bootlicking in here, then the same people will claim to be conservative on another board.

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So he didn't want a police vehicle ruining his drug deals


Ok

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If he's dealing drugs, then build a case, get a search warrant, gather evidence, and if anything is found arrest him. In other words, do actual police work.

Like I said before, if they'd have had anything on him, they'd have already busted him. But they didn't so they decided to harass and intimidate him instead. Maybe you want to live in a place where cops can do this sort of thing to people who are innocent of any crime. But the rest of us don't.

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Your rhymes suck dude

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They are pretty tired

Please stop harassing me.

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Maybe you want to live in a place where cops can do this sort of thing to people who are innocent of any crime. But the rest of us don't.

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Darth, they parked a vehicle in s public parking space on the street, the didn't do anything else. I like it when the police that live in my neighborhood drive marked cars home and park them outside. I like it when police officers wear their uniforms in public and their presence is known.

If a cop took someone's phone and smashed it on the ground because they were standing in a public space filming them, OP would throw a fricking fit.

But a cop, not doing anything to wield his power over anyone (I.e. is just a citizen in a public space), parks his car on a public street, and a store owner burns that car down for no other reason than he doesn't like cops, OP totally sees how the cop started this and is empathetic to the store owner who set fire to city property.

The consistency, I'm missing it.

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GRTiger

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Clearly the man over reacted. He is being charged for that crime.

Clearly the cops were intentionally harassing him. Nothing will come of it.

I'm not really torn up about it, just pointing out the obvious.

ETA, As a libertarian, I sympathize with the store owner. As a taxpayer, i wonder about the expenditure.

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If a cop took someone's phone and smashed it on the ground because they were standing in a public space filming them, OP would throw a fricking fit.

But a cop, not doing anything to wield his power over anyone (I.e. is just a citizen in a public space), parks his car on a public street, and a store owner burns that car down for no other reason than he doesn't like cops, OP totally sees how the cop started this and is empathetic to the store owner who set fire to city property.

The consistency, I'm missing it.

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Seems consistent to me. What am I missing?

Why is a reason needed? Did any other nearby stores complain?

1. Another store owner or nearby resident wanted a police presence
2. The cop lived near there
3. The cop walked a beat in the area
4. The cop was investigating someone in the area
6. The cop was on a bender or slumming with a mistress in the area
5. It was a good parking spot and the cop followed the rules of the street regarding maximum parking time

Cops aren't required to hide in the shadows and pop up when a crime is committed. Simply existing in view of someone who hates cops is not harassment, objectively. This is a ridiculous argument, and I think this is the only very specific instance where you would make it.